Word: problem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although parking meters have somewhat alleviated congestion from shoppers autos, they have in no way solved the problem. The only solution lies in the construction of mammoth lots, on the surface, nearby to shopping centers. While working with students on new designs for Cambridge's street system, professor Wagner came up with interesting and significant figures on automobile owners...
Wagner feels that the city itself should own and operate such lots. By this plan, parking tolls could easily repay initial expenses and case the taxpayer's burden. Until this is accomplished, nothing looms in the immediate offing to ease his parking problem except more meters and new business and residential zoning laws. Many such laws now on the bocks require business establishments to supply parking space for a certain proportion of their trade. Large apartment houses are also supposed to allow one off-the-street parking space for every three occupants, but these and similar ordinances are constantly ignored...
Because of the University's influence on car and pedestrian traffic, and because the corporation itself owns and controls much Harvard Square property, many faculty members and city residents feel that Harvard should take an active part in working on the problem. University prestige as well as funds, they feel, might well hasten action. From the University's standpoint, investments in parking lots could prove a paying proposition, and certainly an ingratiating...
...meanwhile, as you dodge the cars and curse the police, don't scon at Cambridge for trying out rotary traffic. Even if it doesn't work, you should feel reassured to know that the city is at least thinking about the problem. The chances are that you'll keep on dodging and ducking until you graduate. But be a little optimistic, if only for your children's sake. A few more years of brooding and experimentation may pay off for Harvard Square
...pressures of population in the Far East are an important reason for the misery of the people and their discontent, Thomas said, and the problem of population control in these countries is a crucial one. The East's present great desire for mechanization will not succeed in raising standards of living unless the resulting population increase is curbed, he stated...